Software suspend?

2003-06-26 Thread Cliff L. Biffle
;ve worked with the Linux patches (ugg...I miss running FreeBSD and not having to manually patch my kernel) and they're amazingly simple, given their function. How hard do y'all think this would be? Is anyone else interested in this? In Linux it basically lets us work around brok

Re: ACPI: LCD

2003-06-18 Thread Cliff L. Biffle
ere's a very slight possibility that some of the utilities intended for other Compal distributors (Compaq, HP, Toshiba) might work. (The Linux omnibook kernel module works on two of my machines, both Compals, only one an HP.) You might get more information on this from the freebsd-mobile list

Re: Need acpi-event-d?

2003-06-16 Thread Cliff L. Biffle
ct the problem here is with moused, but haven't had time to tear it open (I suddenly got employed). Not sure if David's seeing the same symptoms, exactly. -Cliff L. Biffle ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/lis

Re: USB port periodically dies, now with complete body text

2003-03-05 Thread Cliff L. Biffle
connected; the interesting debug output only appears once it's disconnected. Not disconnecting it doesn't fix anything. Is there a more specific mailing list I could target this to? -Cliff L. Biffle To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

USB port periodically dies, now with complete body text

2003-03-04 Thread Cliff L. Biffle
instead of working for a while and then going insane. Again, ports work fine under Linux. I suspect it may be unrelated.) What should I instrument? Any debug flags I can turn on? -Cliff L. Biffle To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

USB port periodically dies

2003-03-04 Thread Cliff L. Biffle
I've been having a reliable USB issue on my 5-current box (3 Mar, 23:58:25 MST). It's been happening since I upgraded to -current in the DP2 days, and has happened on two completely independent motherboards. On the more recent of the two (the previous died) I've enabled USB_DEBUG. Here's the

APM and ACPI fail on Toshiba Satellite

2003-02-04 Thread Cliff L. Biffle
7;t think it's a hardware issue. Help! -Cliff L. Biffle To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: yet another nvidia post

2002-12-25 Thread Cliff L. Biffle
to do it for 'performance' reasons -- getting the graphics working was an unexpected boon.) I can get you the kernel config, or make it available to the list if anyone's interested in this fleeting heisenbug. -Cliff L. Biffle To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with &qu

Re: 5.0 performance (was: 80386 out of GENERIC)

2002-12-16 Thread Cliff L. Biffle
marks (primarily of KDE and my own applications). I'm willing to trade some time on the compile (which, with any luck, happens only once) in exchange for speed in the application (which I may use every day)! :-) -Cliff L. Biffle To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "uns

Re: RCng -- docs and whatnot?

2002-12-11 Thread Cliff L. Biffle
On Wednesday 11 December 2002 10:49 pm, Mike Makonnen wrote: > man 8 rc > man 8 rc.subr I was really hoping for documentation on how the PROVIDES/REQUIRES stuff was handled and calculated. I'm familiar with the rc scripts in general. I suppose I can read the code. :-) -Cliff L.

RCng -- docs and whatnot?

2002-12-11 Thread Cliff L. Biffle
inister FreeBSD workstations (running KDE 3.1 on 5.0-DP2 here), and I like the way rcng works and would like to see about integrating a configurator. Thanks! -Cliff L. Biffle To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: ATACD issues slowly coming back...

2002-12-08 Thread Cliff L. Biffle
x27;s just been so wonderfully stable...I'm so used to using -stable that this feels like pushing my luck. :-) Thanks! -Cliff L. Biffle To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Motherboard choice for 5.0?

2002-12-07 Thread Cliff L. Biffle
SDRAM would be nice (since I have 768MB here) but not necessary. Suggestions? (Don't want to repeat the KT133 fiasco. :-) -Cliff L. Biffle To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

ATACD issues slowly coming back...

2002-12-06 Thread Cliff L. Biffle
ned potentially-buggy Apollo KT133 chipset, but it's never reported these errors on my hard disk (knock on wood), only the CD drive. They -are- on separate channels. I'll see what information I can collect here, but suggestions on where to look are appreciated. -Cliff L. Biffle To

Re: What is the highest 'safe' CPUTYPE for intel?

2002-12-06 Thread Cliff L. Biffle
nting out DEBUG=-g? Thanks! -Cliff L. Biffle To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

NVidia binary driver on 5.0-DP2

2002-12-05 Thread Cliff L. Biffle
27;s not on the list, since he's still having trouble admitting to running anything other than Gentoo. :-) (Yes, 5.0-DP2 is bringing in converts from the cold left and right here in Tempe!) -Cliff L. Biffle --- src/nv-freebsd.h Wed Oct 30 07:30:58 2002 +++ src/nv-freebsd.h

Re: USB issues with Apollo KT133A mobo

2002-12-04 Thread Cliff L. Biffle
) eliminates the current-draw question. If (2) is true, that points to hardware problems with the primary controller. (Forgot I had two. *grin*) -Cliff L. Biffle To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: USB issues with Apollo KT133A mobo

2002-12-04 Thread Cliff L. Biffle
r mobo is a very early Athlon board, and the chipset may be buggy. -Cliff L. Biffle To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

USB issues with Apollo KT133A mobo

2002-12-04 Thread Cliff L. Biffle
ld I just sup to -current? Thanks! -Cliff L. Biffle To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Any ideas at all about network problem?

2002-12-03 Thread Cliff L. Biffle
is fully capable of saturating a 100mbps link. It's an 8139; the only thing I did that might have been unusual was forcing the media/mediaopts after bad experiences with rl's autodetect in the past. Perhaps if you give me more information about your setup I could better reproduce

Re: Any ideas at all about network problem?

2002-12-02 Thread Cliff L. Biffle
r to 800kBps. I'm trying to find a patch cable (or a crimper) to try 100mbps. -Cliff L. Biffle To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Any ideas at all about network problem?

2002-12-02 Thread Cliff L. Biffle
n. We've got a whole scad of 8139s, 8129s, 3c905s, and some old Davicom-based cards that gave me endless trouble under 4.x. I'll let you know what I find. For reference, the 8139 in my 5-current box here works at full speed, but I'm on 10mbps; we have more 100baseT equipment at wor